If someone gave you $15,000 to never use mac os x again, what would you do?

[bagelche]

I'm assuming the hypothetical agreement is binding in some fashion. I'd say no. As broke as I am, it's not that much money.

What do you do if you're trapped in the Mac lab at some school with no phone and no one around to hear your screams and you're running out of oxygen. Are you barred from using the available computers to access the outside world? "Oh Noes! I took that $15k; goodbye cruel world."

overthinking much?

 

[djellison]

and I thought this site was full of loyalists.

Blind loyalty to a brand is pure stupidity.

For $15k - I'd dump my Macbook, and be all over a Z series Vaio with it's built in 3G and 1600 x 900 display in seconds.

I'd miss Keynote for a while, but that'd be about it.

 

[arkitect]

For $15,000?
No.

"I don't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day…"

 

[Metatron]

Take the money...

Move to another unix/linux OS...

 

[greygray]

Take it and buy Apple STOCK.

 

[toolbox]

hell for 15k i'd punch my mom in the face...just kidding, but seriously

LoL god i felt like doing that many times during my "rebellious" teen years

for 15K i would have to go back to windows. My house is more important to me then computers.

 

[-aggie-]

Take the money. I've never had much problems with Windows.

 

[yg17]

$15,000?

Dude, I'm gettin' a Dell.

 

[splitpea]

Laugh at them.

Add a 0 or two to the end of that number, and then we might have something to talk about.

 

[Xavier]

I'd take the money and pray for OS XI.

Just what I was thinking!

 

[obeygiant]

It would have to be much more than a measly 15k. I've been making a living on my mac since 1994 and my quadra 800.

 

[sushi]

It would have to be way more than 15K for me not to use Mac OS for the rest of my life.

 

[Buzz Bumble]

$15,000? Hello Windows 7.

Yep, Windows pricing is that ridiculous.

$15,000? Dude, I'm gettin' a Dell.

And people say Macs are expensive?! There's no way I'd pay $15,00 for a Dell.

Bill Gates showed up at your house too!?

Gates purposely retired so that he could visit every Mac user personally to buy them out, or beat them into submission, or failing that simply steal their Mac ... just like Microsoft has done with most of the computing industry and the joke "justice" systems of multiple countries.

As Steve Jobs said a while ago OS X is the Mac OS for the next two decades, and as OS X came out 1999/2000 it would mean OS XI arrives in eight to ten years.

15.000 USD for an average of nine years use of another OS would only be 4,56 USD per day. I'd gladly pay 5€ (7.19 USD) per day to use Mac OS X instead of Windows or some of the Linux flavours out there.

Shhh ... you'll give Steve Jobs ideas for Mac OS X 10.6. Oh dear, too late, they patented forced advertising for "free" products a couple of weeks back.

 

[Queso]

Not a chance. I'd not even think of saying yes unless it were 20x that amount

 

[spacemanps]

take the money.... its time to learn Linux!

 

[Archon Gold]

New Mac Pro w/ Triple 30" Cinema displays, I'd wipe the thing and install windows, no one said we couldn't use Macs hardware-wise

 

[RITZFit]

yup, i'd sell out in a heartbeat

 

[charlesbronsen]

$15,000?

Dude, I'm gettin' a Dell.

hahah - I'm with you on that one... Wonders what ever happened to that dell dude?

 

[miniConvert]

No. OS X is significantly more valuable to me than $15k.

 

[spacemanps]

i dont know if i would go back to windows on my personal computer necessarily... i havent messed with windows 7, but i would go to Ubuntu again before i went to windows..

Everyday at work i am forced to used Windows, and i guess im okay with it.. free laptop vs no laptop... you tell me

 

[BlackiBook]

I do love using OS X but I can get by without it!! I think Windows 7 could fill my computer needs, but no way would I give up Apple computers!

 

[nick1516]

Of course, I have snow leopard and windows 7, and would be willing to use either one, I'm not stuck on macs. However, if this included ipods and possible tablets, this may be a different answer.

 

[Knowlege Bomb]

It's scary that I've been using OSX for less than two days and I had to think about this.

15k really doesn't sound like much but it would put a significant dent in my student loan principal so yes, I'd dump OSX.

I certainly wouldn't be happy about it though.

 

[dukebound85]

i would learn to use windows until os XI came lol

 

[SkyBell]

$15,00? Hell yes. I could buy a fecking nice PC with that kind of cash. And there's always FlyakiteOSX if I'm ever feeling "homesick."